When There Is Nothing Left But Love

“It’s not that easy. You just applied for it, and now you want to go through it again. To start the process again, they will ask for your identification to verify. The entire process itself will take another half a month.”

She had a point.

Nora grew anxious, then she looked at me and said, “Scarlett, listen to me. Let’s go and search every store’s trashcan. We might be able to find it.”

“Why the trashcans?” I asked, in puzzlement.

She thought for a while and said, “I can’t tell you now. Let’s go and search first.”

Having said that, she pulled me towards the store and began to look into the trashcans of every store. She even asked the storekeepers if they had changed the trash bag.

Although I did not understand what Nora meant, I went along with her.

“Found it!” After searching in a few stores, she finally found the documents in a trashcan. She exclaimed in delight, “I found it!”

I was stunned when I saw her retrieved the documents from the bottom of the trashcan.

Armond was just as surprised. Just like me, he never thought that the documents would be in the trashcan.

Nora handed the documents to me and said, “Look through it and see if there’s anything missing.”

Then she walked towards the storekeeper and raised her voice. “What’s wrong with you people? Why didn’t you keep the documents until the owner comes back for them? Why did you throw such important documents into the trashcan?”

She had seen us return to her store twice to look for it, and

her head and said, “It wasn’t us who threw it in the trashcan. Besides, we’ve never seen these documents before. We have a surveillance camera, and if you’d like,

angrily. “Other than

to catch. Let’s go now.” All it mattered was that we found what we

she always was, Nora insisted, “No. We must

storekeeper turned on the surveillance footage for us to watch. It was the only way for

and said softly, “I’m

faintly and

storekeepers watched the surveillance footage together. After a brief moment, the storekeeper said, “See that? We didn’t throw the documents into the trashcan. You threw

froze and asked in confusion,

looked at me and said, “Come and have a

a little surprised, so I walked over to them to watch the surveillance footage. In the video, the

handbags, so she handed my bag that was in her

that we were not aware of

she retrieved the documents from my bag and threw it into

then she followed us out of the store as if nothing had

“What was she trying to do? Did she do that so that you won’t be able

lips and was lost in thought. After snapping out of my thought, I turned to the storekeepers and

tugged at me and said, “You can’t keep quiet. You have to say